Cram it with walnuts, ugly!
Well shit.
I have one day off per week. Or, rather, I get one night where I don't have to think of work. I use the time to do my laundry and attempt to remedy my weekly sleep deficit.
I also have the weakness of not being able to turn down work when somebody offers it.
I just got off the phone with my S/S, and the Friday after next he wants me to come in for an afternoon shift. Let me break this down:
I'm going to work from 0000 to 0800 Friday morning. Normally I'd then be off until Saturday night. That gives me Friday night free, which I'd use to sleep. That frees up the latter part of Friday, and the early part of Saturday to do the various chores that accumulate during the week. Makes sense, right?
Well, now I'm going to work from 0000 to 0800 on Friday, and then from 1600 to 0000 the same day. The timing stinks.
Usually my S/S works that shift, but because we need an extra guy on (the site will be shut down so they'll need 24 hour security rather than 16 hour), he always takes advantage of that and shifts to the 0800-1600 shift. Means he gets his evening free.
Of course, he gets weekends off as well.
Much better for me if he sticks to his usual shift and lets me work from 0000-1600. It's still sixteen hours that day, but to work it in one big bunch lets me get it out of the way and have some semblance of my day off. But noooooooooo.
He claims that someone there wanted him on because there are contractors showing up on the site. Sounds reasonable, but even I can open a door for outside labour, and even let them out afterwards. I did it last night, in fact. And earlier in the week. You know, doing the job I get paid for.
All of that aside, I accepted it anyway. Damn it.
Pardon me while I stew at myself for a while. :P
I have one day off per week. Or, rather, I get one night where I don't have to think of work. I use the time to do my laundry and attempt to remedy my weekly sleep deficit.
I also have the weakness of not being able to turn down work when somebody offers it.
I just got off the phone with my S/S, and the Friday after next he wants me to come in for an afternoon shift. Let me break this down:
I'm going to work from 0000 to 0800 Friday morning. Normally I'd then be off until Saturday night. That gives me Friday night free, which I'd use to sleep. That frees up the latter part of Friday, and the early part of Saturday to do the various chores that accumulate during the week. Makes sense, right?
Well, now I'm going to work from 0000 to 0800 on Friday, and then from 1600 to 0000 the same day. The timing stinks.
Usually my S/S works that shift, but because we need an extra guy on (the site will be shut down so they'll need 24 hour security rather than 16 hour), he always takes advantage of that and shifts to the 0800-1600 shift. Means he gets his evening free.
Of course, he gets weekends off as well.
Much better for me if he sticks to his usual shift and lets me work from 0000-1600. It's still sixteen hours that day, but to work it in one big bunch lets me get it out of the way and have some semblance of my day off. But noooooooooo.
He claims that someone there wanted him on because there are contractors showing up on the site. Sounds reasonable, but even I can open a door for outside labour, and even let them out afterwards. I did it last night, in fact. And earlier in the week. You know, doing the job I get paid for.
All of that aside, I accepted it anyway. Damn it.
Pardon me while I stew at myself for a while. :P
posted by Rimmy at 19:17
4 Comments:
Dude I had the same problem.
But if you keep accepting then they're gona keep asking.
So whipe the word"Welcome" off your forhead and take life into your own half Life fraging hands!!! ;)
You two silly buggers!
I've got no problem working more, since the current schedule pretty much shuts down having an outside life anyway.
I was mostly complaining that the "eight-on-eight-off-eight-on" is much more irritating than a solid sixteen hour shift would be, and that I'd rather they load up any day other than my one day off. I've done the "work for fifteen days in a row" thing before and it isn't so fun that I want to make it a habit.
Although this time it'll only be thirteen days in a row. Cakewalk! Mmmmm, cake...
I'm not crazy enough to do shift work myself :)
But of course that means I make my husband do it, and he had that crazy thing going for a while too.
He worked 11pm until 9 am, then they wanted him back in at 1pm until 11pm, and then he would be back in for 9am the next day, which is 20 hours in a 24 hour period, and that nasty 4 hour lull is not enough much considering the time it would take him just to drive home and back.
Who comes up with these shifts? They are totally against nature. Of course, I felt justified in complaining when he came in and woke me up at odd hours. Grr...
I'm sure there are managers back at the office (in the daylight!) throwing dice to come up with the shifts. :P
I don't mind shift work itself, but the scheduling sometimes...
If you're working that day anyway, it's rarely a big deal to tag on another four or eight hours, since the day's already mostly shot anyway (yes, I know you can work AND have a life), but those pointless gaps inbetween just serve to irritate, not give a "break". :P
And I'm sure I'll get barked at too if I'm coming home at all hours. ;)
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